One detailed Ferguson report for the day

Post #393,354 by Ashton 8/18/14 5:14:12 PM 8/18/14 5:26:15 PM Reply	One detailed Ferguson report for the day The locals seem locked-in to a mindset guaranteed to precipitate escalating repercussions. It's Broken, Jim.. Ed: Then there's this factoid re the training of cops in this Kansas town-let. They seem to have gotten a 0 re. anything on a list, Not-to-Do. New Murican Record? Edited by Ashton Aug. 18, 2014, 05:26:15 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #393,358 by boxley 8/18/14 5:54:56 PM Reply	kansas missouri wtfd, dont let the jayhawkers catch up with you Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep
Post #393,360 by Another Scott 8/18/14 6:21:33 PM Reply	Let's remember, Ferguson isn't alone. RawStory: Police fatally shot a man carrying an air rifle at an Ohio Walmart earlier this week. Another customer called 911 to report 22-year-old John Crawford waving what appeared to be an AR-15 at children and others at the Beavercreek retailer. The mother of Crawford’s children said she was speaking to him by cell phone when he was confronted by police in the store. “He said he was at the video games playing videos, and he went over there by the toy section where the toy guns were,” said LeeCee Johnson. “The next thing I know, he said, ‘It’s not real,’ and the police start shooting, and they said ‘Get on the ground,’ but he was already on the ground because they had shot him.” “I could hear him just crying and screaming,” Johnson said. “I feel like they shot him down like he was not even human.” Ohio’s attorney general, who was asked by Beavercreek police to investigate the case, confirmed Crawford was holding a MK-177 (.177 caliber) BB/Pellet Rifle when he was shot to death. [...] Beavercreek is a fairly affluent, overwhelmingly white, suburb of Dayton. :-( I fear the only thing that is going to reduce (apparently) indiscriminate shootings like these is to require that every policeman with a weapon has to wear a video camera every time they carry a weapon. It's long-past time that such policies were in place. Cheers, Scott.
Post #393,361 by folkert 8/18/14 7:20:08 PM Reply	Some PDs already do... And it doesn't really stop the bad ones much. It only makes sure the good ones are deliberate. Which is good. But still bad, since the adrenaline pumping "Buck fever" gets going and takes over. Yeah... I'm sure we are soon to have some real armed rebellions. -- greg@gregfolkert.net "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Post #393,396 by Another Scott 8/19/14 3:12:42 PM Reply	Mnemosyne at Balloon-Juice. Good points. Here: Mnemosyne says: August 19, 2014 at 2:22 pm @Cacti: A few weeks ago, somebody posted a story about their ex-NYC cop acquaintance who had to be let go from her volunteer job because she kept expecting the teenagers she was working with to obey her orders without question. Apparently her training had been to demand obedience and compliance from everyone she dealt with during her workday, and any failure to comply was supposed to be met with a show of force. To me, this is the basis of so many of these stories that we hear over and over and over again. It’s why we keep hearing about mentally ill people being killed by cops, people in diabetic shock being killed by cops, people staggering away from car accidents being killed by cops — they are demanding compliance and obedience from everyone they encounter, even people who are unable to do either one, and responding with deadly force if they don’t get it. This is a huge, huge problem, and it comes at the basic level of training people to be cops. This has got to be changed. Yes, militarization, blah blah blah, but Wilson didn’t have a machine gun or any tear gas. He just had a gun and an expectation of being immediately obeyed or he had a right to shoot to kill. Yup. Rest easy, Greg. You will be missed, and remembered. :-( Cheers, Scott.
Post #393,415 by Ashton 8/19/14 6:48:11 PM Reply	You have hit on it, Exactly. The disconnect between THIS Mind-set and (that of virtually everyone Not-a-Cop)--this one facet-alone, once fully-realized: should save thousands/year. And if acted-upon sanely via most Cop Regiments, might even prevent the now near-inevitable chaos of active rebellion. Some compact-phrase, summarizing: needs to be on the Times Square giant-TV-screen for a solid Month. [Year?] aka Viralyze the sucker.. Another Library just burned down.. was never so applicable. What's it been--near-Twenty Years in these parts--meaning Greg was ~23ish as we coalesced via I.W. All here witnessed the young kid's self-exit, early on, as did Greg. 43!! is where (many..) just Begin to deal with the inculcated absurdities of our milieu, thence discover how you can erase much of the mind-fucking all about. NOT where you throw-in-the-Towel. (Had a lengthy chat with Greg ~time I sent him that LRPD-ated 'Tek 454A'-thing..) Doesn't compare with the experience of his cohorts here, but was enough to reveal a fine mind, one never satisfied until some X was fully comprehended, then on to the next. Pity that our techno-analytical-skillz are so rarely equalled by our self-analytical reduced-set. And there's so little a one can do to assist--in time. tl;dr Yes, he'll be missed, just as he missed imagining what might-have-been. Dammit!! This Death-kultur breeds THIS. We must Kill That Toxin within the dis-USA, else

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